Cubex complies with the data protection principles set out in the Act in relation to personal data which you give to us via this website to the extent that the Act requires it to do so.

The Act says, amongst other things, that we must:

Use your information fairly, and only for the purposes that we say we need it

Keep your information secure, accurate and up-to-date

Dispose of your information when we no longer need it

Collection and use of personal information

We collect and use your personal information to communicate with you and tell you about our work. We may use it to send emails to you and to notify you of our activities. We may use it to provide services to you that you have specifically requested from us.

We will generally let you know at the time of collection how we intend to use your personal information. Usually, we collect personal information about you which we require to respond to enquires and for the provision of goods and services to you. We also process your personal information where we are required to do so by law, and for the exercise or defence of legal claims. From time to time, we may contact you for research purposes, or to tell you about our special offers and other services in accordance with your contact preferences. We may also collect information about you for a number of other reasons, including:

equal opportunities monitoring

research

prevention of crime

regulatory purposes

Where appropriate, we will obtain your consent to do so.

If you use our web sites, we may also collect information about you or your computer when you browse to allow you to use the services available.

Why we collect it

We collect and use your personal information to communicate with you and tell you about our developments.

We may use it to send emails to you. We may use it to notify you of our activities. We may use it to provide services to you that you have specifically requested from us.

Where you have agreed for your information to be shared with a third party, it may be used to offer appropriate financial services to you.

We use a third party email service provider to do this who treats all data from us as proprietary and confidential in accordance with the Data Protection Act.

Who we share your information with

The information is held in files and on our computer system and can only be seen by those who need to. We do not sell, rent or lease the information we collect to any third parties and we do not use or disclose information of a sensitive nature such as information about any disability that you might have, your race, religion, or political affiliations, without firstly obtaining your explicit consent.

Where you have expressed consent we may share relevant information to third parties to enable us/them to provide financial assistance and advise.

Control of your personal information

You may choose not to have your personal information used in any of the ways described in this privacy policy. Where your personal information is collected you will often be given the opportunity to give or refuse your consent to certain uses of your personal information.

We will retain your information for a reasonable period or as long as the Act requires.

Contacting us

You are entitled to see the information held about you and you may ask us to make any necessary changes to ensure that it is accurate and kept up to date. If you wish to do this, please contact us. We are entitled by law to charge a fee of £10 to meet our costs in providing you with details of the information we hold about you.

Please contact us if at any time you wish to have your personal information removed from our records, or you wish us to stop using your personal information in certain ways, or if you wish to discover the extent of personal information that we hold about you.

Changes to privacy policy

We reserve the right to add to or amend this privacy policy at our sole discretion, without prior notice to you. Please review our privacy policy on a regular basis to make sure you have read the latest version and you understand what we do with your personal information. Your continued use of our services or our web sites following the posting of changes to these terms means that you consent to those changes.